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Okay. Copy that. No complaints.

Okay. We're ready to proceed with hatch closeup.

Okay. Did Jim get the film out of Aquarius?

Yes. We—You mean the film we took this morning?

That's affirm.

Yes, We've transferred that.

Okay. Good deal. Jack, let me mention something about the hatch integrity check. You're going to vent the tunnel until you get a 3-psi DELTA-P. That should take 9 or 10 minutes, and it's our firm feeling that you don't have to wait another 10 minutes after that for a leak check. If it holds pressure for a minute or so or even gets down there, you know you've got a good hatch. Over.

Okay. Copy that.

Okay, Houston. We've got an O₂ FLOW HIGH.

Okay, Jack, are you -

Well, we might be pressurizing a lot of the system that was not pressurized.

Roger. I expect that's the case. Let us check it.

Okay. Take a good look at CABIN.

Will do.

Odyssey, Houston, just verify your DIRECT O₂ is OFF. Over.

Yes, sir. That is verified.

Okay, and —

… It's dropping now, Joe.

Roger. We think that you were just pressurizing the cabin up to that regulator's particular SPEC.

Odyssey, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay. We're observing middle gimbal angle getting a little bit high. The LM appears to be deadbanding okay within its attitude, but just wanted you to know that we're keeping an eye on it and if it does get too high, we might want you to punch off early.

Okay.

And verify that the hatch is secured and that you are venting the tunnel. Over.

That's verified. We have a DELTA-P of 2.8.

Real good. Real good.

Okay, Joe. Since we're ahead of the time line, can I proceed on and kind of punch off early, or do you want me to punch off at exactly 1 hour?

Jack, when you are comfortably ready to punch off, you can go ahead and do it.

Odyssey, Houston. We just had a formal GO for LM JETT at your convenience. Over.

Okay. Thanks, Joe.

Okay.

Okay, Odyssey; Houston. We're ready for you to bring the BMAGs ON and WARM UP and all other things being equal, we'd like you to go through the LM JETT at—on the checklist you've got. And that is BMAGs 1 —

Okay. Will do.

— 1. That's BMAG 1 now, as you know.

Yes, BMAG 1 is in WARM UP.

Okay, Houston. Do you have a command module weight for me?

Stand by 1, Jack.

Odyssey, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay. I'm reminded that the entry DAP is all you've got. It'll initialize itself, and you won't have an—you won't have an RCS DAP, so you don't have to fool with it.

Okay.

Okay, Joe. I'm—Have you got your checklist out there on the SPS powerup?

That's affirm.

Okay. I'm coming down here to a step that says FDAI POWER, off. Is that what you want right now, I guess, huh?

Go ahead.

Okay, Jack. That FDAI POWER, OFF, is to stop momentary gliches as you bring up the BMAG to put it on, and you turn right around and put the FDAI POWER right back on 1.

Okay. And I don't have the BMAG TEMP light out yet. Do you want me to go ahead and put the BMAG ON with the TEMP light still ON?

That's affirm. We can go ahead and you'll have a good stable rate.

Okay, Joe. The Moon is coming down to about 38 degrees. … —

Okay, Jack. Sounds real good.

Odyssey, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay. We'd like the S-BAND POWER AMPLIFIER to OFF, center, at this time, Jim.

OFF, center, is done.

Okay. You're still looking real fat on power. We show you having over 30 amps on the water. If you do get into a bind and don't come up—that's amp-hours—don't come up with Recovery, you can always power down and you can always put the pyro batteries on the line if you need them after you're down.

Joe, are you planning to run this all the way down without the suit compressor?

Say again, Jack.

Are you planning to turn on the suit compressor at all on the way down?

That's a negative Jack; I'll verify it, but I sure don't think so.

Okay. That's all right with us.

Okay, Jack. This is Houston. We've got POWER, and you can cycle it for 10 minutes if you so desire, but we don't think you need to do it. Over.

Okay. We'll hold out.

Okay. Real fine. How did the EMS check go, Jack?

EMS checked out okay —

Good deal.

— been initialized and sitting on ENTRY.

Roger.

Okay, Joe. Are you watching—you and FIDO taking a look at our NOUN 60 here?

That's affirmative. Hold it just a second; we are looking at 6.13 and 4.80. I'll get a check on that.

Okay. That's not too many g's.

Jack, FIDO says that's okay.

Okay.

Jack, Houston. Your NOUN 63 looks good to us.

Okay.

Joe, how far out do you show us now?

Oh, on our plotboard up here, we can't hardly see how far out you are.

Okay.

I know all of us here want to thank all you guys down there for the very fine job you did.

That's affirm, Joe.

I'll tell you—We all had a good time doing it.

Okay, Odyssey; Houston. Just for your information, it looks as though battery C will deplete around main chute time; that's expected; you've got plenty of amp-hours in the other batteries.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay, I was just going to tell you about that handover we just had, but I was a little late on the—on the ball. Since we're fat on power and we'd kind of like to have S-band with you after blackout—we'd—We'd like you to delete the step on your entry checklist page 2-5, after “Begin blackout,” it says “POWER PMP to OFF.” We'd like you to leave it on if you think of it. Over.

Okay.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay. At 10 minutes to 400 K, you're looking good; we're real happy with the trajectory, and a minute ago, we just lost contact with your friend Aquarius.

Okay. Where did she go?

Oh, I don't know. She's up there somewhere.

She sure was a good ship.

Hey, just as I said that, we got another burst of LM data, so I guess it's still ticking.